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Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign : war resistance in apartheid South Africa / Daniel Conway. - MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

MASCULINITIES, MILITARISATION AND THE END CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers; 2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth of war; 3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent: constructing; 4. 'Going the right way': contesting conscription; 5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign; 6. 'Every coward's choice'?: responses to war resistance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation and analyses the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on and constitutive of masculinities. Conway draws upon a range of materials and disciplines t.

ISBN: 1526129590 (electronic bk.) 9781526129598 (electronic bk.)

Source: 22573/ctt1vwgv80 JSTOR

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB7K0742 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 018568406 Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1948-1994

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Anti-apartheid movements--History.--South Africa
Draft resisters--South Africa.
Sociology, Military--South Africa.
Masculinity--South Africa.
Mouvements anti-apartheid--Histoire.--Afrique du Sud
Insoumis (Militaires)--Afrique du Sud.
Sociologie militaire--Afrique du Sud.
Masculinité--Afrique du Sud.
HISTORY--Social History.
Anti-apartheid movements.
Draft resisters.
Masculinity.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Military.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994.
South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994.
Afrique du Sud--Conditions sociales--1961-1994.
Afrique du Sud--Politique et gouvernement--1948-1994.
South Africa.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: DT1757 / .C665 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.800968